An analysis of one complicated poem in the book: Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire. Poem "Which is the True One?", describe the complexing image.

<Tab/>Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet who desired to write poetry in prose form, often challenging other authors to do so (Benjamin 165). He finally took on this ambitious objective himself when he wrote the book Twenty Prose Poems. The book consists of poetry without rhythm or rhyme. This seems to fit Baudelaire's style almost perfectly because he often wrote controversial and unexplainable poetry. Many of the poems have an …

…shiny object and escape. Like a raccoon caught in a raccoon trap, the man could free himself by letting go of his ideal woman, but he will not release his shinny object. He is perfectly content with being attached "to the grave of the ideal" (Baudelaire 61). Until he is able to let go of his ideal woman he will be stuck, as it were, with one foot in the grave. <Tab/>